Comment 5 for bug 886843

I get the same problem already with upstart 1.3-0ubuntu10 when running a remaster script that unpacks an oneiric live CD, chroots into it, adds universe to the sources and installs cups-pdf. The problem does not occur when running the same remaster script with natty. Neither does it occur when manually starting an oneiric live CD and installing cups-pdf.

Instead of installing cups-pdf, it suffices to do "apt-get install --reinstall cups" to get the same behaviour.

root@ubuntu:/# apt-cache policy upstart
upstart:
  Installed: 1.3-0ubuntu10
  Candidate: 1.3-0ubuntu11
  Version table:
     1.3-0ubuntu11 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main i386 Packages
 *** 1.3-0ubuntu10 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@ubuntu:/# apt-get install cups-pdf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  cups-pdf
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 303 not upgraded.
Need to get 38.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 299 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe cups-pdf i386 2.5.1-7 [38.0 kB]
Fetched 38.0 kB in 0s (205 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package cups-pdf.
(Reading database ... 132571 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cups-pdf (from .../cups-pdf_2.5.1-7_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for cups ...
start: Unknown job: cups
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing cups (--unpack):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cups
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@ubuntu:/#